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The HSM provides States with new tools to more effectively predict the effectiveness of alternative safety strategies and countermeasures. High-performing States are not only using these tools, but are incorporating them into their processes for evaluating and prioritizing potential HSIP projects.
SPOTLIGHT ON SAFETY:
New Hampshire's Use of Safety Analyst
A complete, consistent, and comprehensive data collection process is necessary to assess potential safety issues on all roadways in the State. Successful States maintain a statewide inventory of crash, roadway and traffic characteristics to locate and evaluate a comprehensive program of potential spot and systemic safety projects. A quantitative project prioritization process enables the selection of HSIP projects that provide the greatest opportunity for reducing fatalities and serious injuries.
One of the basic foundations of the HSIP is the direct linkage between the data-driven priorities established in the State's SHSP and the identification, development and implementation of HSIP projects. Understanding the contribution of HSIP projects towards achieving the goals and objectives of the SHSP can help guide program decisions and project selections. Every Scan Tour State considered an important part of the overall safety program to be the use of the SHSP as a tool for defining HSIP initiatives and areas of emphasis.
In highly successful programs, internal stakeholders within the DOT (e.g. maintenance, design, and finance) hold a shared commitment towards placing safety first and working together to facilitate and accelerate the planning, design, and construction of HSIP projects. Likewise, it is also important that the HSIP is fully coordinated and integrated with the work of other organizations, associations, and stakeholders (e.g., law enforcement, safety advocates, metropolitan planning organizations [MPO]) that play a role in reducing fatalities and serious injuries.
Many States develop clear documentation of the processes they use to administer the HSIP. These processes typically define how to identify, evaluate, prioritize, and fund safety improvement projects. This documentation not only helps to ensure implementation consistency across an agency, but it also helps stakeholders understand the requirements for using these funds.
The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) is a federally-funded, State-administered program with the purpose of reducing fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads (including non-State-owned public roads and roads on tribal land) through the implementation of highway safety improvement projects. The HSIP requires a data-driven, strategic approach to improving highway safety on all public roads that focuses on performance.
The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) is a core Federal-aid program with the purpose of achieving a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads, including non-State-owned facilities. In its efforts to ensure that the program investment produces an optimal outcome, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) conducted a scan tour of HSIP practices in the fall of 2015.
| 4E's | Enforcement, Education, Emergency Response, and Engineering |
| AASHTO | American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials |
| AHSO | Alaska Highway Safety Offices |
| AOC | Association of Oregon Counties |
| ARTS | All-Roads Transportation Safety |
March 2016
FHWASA-16-024